Category Archives: You Must be Mistaken

LHC, Snow Angels, and an Email Massage

  • LHC Update: Another power failure. This is just getting silly. (Oh, and also: World still here.) #
  • I guess I’ll be listening to some of Tori Amos’ Christmas album after all. “Snow Angels” is today’s free holiday song on Amazon. #
  • Search hit: “thunderbird thinks this massages is a scam” #

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GeoCities / Com & Line

  • GeoCities lingered for a day, but has shuffled off this mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. # Over at Speed Force, I wrote a piece on GeoCities, RIP: Fandom’s Lost Pages.
  • Interesting typo seen on a mailing list: “com and line option.” (command line) #

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Starbuck(’)s Coffee

Starbucks sign with an apostrophe removed

I found this sign on the day after National Punctuation Day. You can still see the residue from the adhesive where the extra apostrophe was attached.

Someone clearly got Starbucks Coffee confused with Starbuck’s coffee. Of course, in some cases, they could be the same thing:


Flickr photo by amidalasrogue

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Words, Words, Words

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I Have A Preposition For You

Do Not Remove This Area

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Lost in Translation

All You Can It Sushi

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Critical Miss

Take a look at this press release for the Los Angeles Science Fiction and Comic Book Convention and see if you can figure out what’s missing: Continue reading

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Late Christmas & Translation Fail

  • Finally mailed gifts to people we missed over Christmas. Except for one that still hasn’t shown up. I may be slow, but UPS is slower… #
  • Woohoo! New Butterfly Boucher album coming this year! #
  • Google Translate on a misdirected tech support request in Korean: “the product did not change down on the wind.” Wonder what that’s about? #

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Coming Soon! Or Not.

Clearly there’ve been a few delays.

This photo was taken in October. It’s November, and the place still isn’t open.

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Saftey First – En Español

Just to show that English-language sign writers don’t have a monopoly on misspellings, here’s a sign we spotted at a construction site in Irvine:

Literally it means “Think Safety” — or it would if it said “Piense seguridad.” The typo makes this the Spanish equivalent of “Saftey First.”

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